People"(He's) very, very romantic, despite degrading comments...

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"(He's) very, very romantic, despite degrading comments made in the past by certain larva. (We're) waiting for the day when all the snakes who have tried to take him out get to eat their own lunch and crawl back in the holes from which they came."

-Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, on husband Michael Jackson

"I have a plan for myself in my 50s . . . . I'll get to play all the big-hair women-Ann Richards, Margaret Thatcher. It's going to be my territory. I want the bio-pic of Margaret Thatcher."

-actress Blair Brown

"He's like a big golden retriever. . . . If you take your eyes off him for one second, he's going to run right out into traffic."

"For me, something dangerous would be playing the movie babe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I would stink."

-actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, on whether it's risky to keep playing twisted characters (such as a junkie cop in "Rush," a psycho roommate in "Single White Female" and a pill-popping daughter in "Dolores Claiborne")

"There's an art to maneuvering it. The first time I tried one, preparing to play a lion tamer in `The Postman Always Rings Twice,' I was practicing in my back yard, and I hit myself so hard with the lash that I knocked myself into the pool."

-actress Angelica Huston, on mastering a bullwhip for her role as Calamity Jane in the mini-series "Buffalo Girls"

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"I just need an hour off a week to visit my probation officer."

-one of the top 10 phrases you don't want to hear from a potential child caregiver, from "The Working Mom's Book of Hints, Tips, and Everyday Wisdom," by Louise Lague (Peterson's, $9.95)